Sony WHXB900 Extra Bass Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones

Hands down, these are a personal favorite. However, I am not a audiophile nor a bass head (most days) or a audio snob. Im a IT professional who works in a server room 8 hours a day with the sound of fans, humming, and occasionally beeps.These headphones blocked out all the fan noise and humming, with no added hiss like on cheaper ANC headphones. But they arent designed to block sudden noises. So keep that in mind.The sound is unbelievable, if you aren't someone who likes a "airy" sound stage. As if you were sitting in front of the performance, that's what airy is, you get the sound of the music at peak recording but its not 100% on your ears. Kind of like its completely focused infront of you and not to your sides.These headphones are 2 amazing speakers strapped to your ears and they sound great! Bass is strong and can be tuned to your choice. The music is clear and clean.Comfort, youll fall asleep with these on. Don't tell my bossBattery, lasts 33 hours, roughly 4 8 hour work days and change. Charges pretty quickly but, I have a minor issues with my pair. They are constantly stuck at 70% charged. Not an issue just annoyance for a $200 pair of headphones. Not everyone has this issue but don't freak out if you buy this and it happens to you.Sony Headphones App, the app is decent, nothing crazy. The spatial sound setting is neat, and how it can tell if im walking, sitting, on a train, etc. Is genius, keeps me alert and shuts out the hustle and bustle noise.Overall, 8/10. These are worth $300, sound amazing, have easy controls, amazing ANC, and bass that'll keep you moving. However, the battery issue and no hard case are issues to me. If skullcandy is selling their Venue headphones with a hard case for less, Sony can do it too ( Granted they have worse ANC and Sound but comparable bass)If you can afford it, buy them and you won't regret it. You'll never want to take them off, and it really helps for anyone in a noisy environment.Thank you and have a good day

Let me start off saying that I paid $380 USD with the competition in Bose NC-700 and I am wowed by so.ethung that is $200 USD cheaper. These are on par with the Bose. I believe even with the $350 USD versions of these they are still the same. The noise canceling is not better than Bose. Bose seems to have that locked down over even Sony. The bass, loudness, and over crisp delivery of music is slightly better. I am saying this because it seems that Bose works best with Apple anf not as good with Android. I have an older non-noise canceling Sony headset that I recently replaced with these. Those are still amazing to this date and I keep them at work in my office. I use them with my iPhone and those Sony headphones are not as crisp as using them with Android. I'm starting to see the light here. So my belief was to keep Bose with Apple and Sony with Android and so far I believe my theory is true. The Bose did provide much more Intuitive app than Sony so I also give Bose the nod on that. Overall I prefer both. Still if you donot want to make the mistake like I did and pay $380 USD for headphones because you're an Audiophile like me and thought paying more meant quality then please stop and buy these. Save $200 USD and you won't regret it.

As a regular headset, it is fantastic. Excellent bass sound as advertised. Microphone arrays pickup crystal-clear voice for Zoom meeting, phone, etc. Quality Sony product (I had several Sony high-end headsets in the past). But I am somewhat disappointed with the noise cancelling performance, which is the main reason it was purchased. There is a button that one can toggle through 3 modes: ambient sound (AS), ambient sound control off (AS off), and noise cancelling (NC). A test sound with frequency variable from 100 - 2200 Hz was used. In AS off, the headset works as a passive ear muffler, which can be compared with a 27-dB passive hearing protecting device. In this respect, it is designed well enough to come close to the hearing protector. One should expect that with NC mode on, it should be at least as good or better than the hearing protector. However, from 1100 - 1600 Hz, one can hear very modest NC performance. This is slightly disappointing.Then, two other types of noise were used for testing: hair blower/bathtub water flow, and fire alarm siren. One can hear the spectral change with AS off and NC for the first type of noise (hair blower, water flow), in which, the low frequency part was attenuated compared to the high-frequency part. But for the fire alarm siren, the NC was not that much different from AS off.I am not sure I would want to keep it, as far less expensive headset can already deliver this level of NC performance. But definitely, as a headset, the sound quality is excellent.For the sake of the completeness, perhaps other features should be reviewed also:1- mechanical comfort: quite good. It should be noted that sound, thermal insulation, and softness are inevitably correlated, so one should feel warm ear for any good sound and soft insulation headset. This one is well designed and has little discomfort regarding the warm ear effect.2- Bluetooth connection: quite impressive as I can still hear music clearly from the computer easily 50 ft away. The connection can be slightly glitchy, but perhaps it was due to Windows 10 problem. I had to reboot the computer and re-Bluetooth-pairing once or twice to get the computer to recognize "WX-HB900N". If it is recognized as "LE_WX-HB900N," the wireless headset doesn't work for some strange reason.3- will not work while being charged. So, one has to charge it full first before using. It draws only 0.25 A current while charging, hence, it takes a couple hours for a full charge.

I tried the Bose quiet comfort 45 and I was appalled by the lack of bass response. I wanted to go from ear buds to over ear headphones largely for the sake of more bass. I was blown away when I tried these Sonys. The overall sound quality is great, but the bass is outstanding. I personally like the bass set in the Sony app set at max, but even people who don’t love bass heavy music will appreciate these even at a low setting. Beats headphones and Bose headphones really don’t compare in terms of sound quality. Maybe their noise cancelling is better but I don’t care as I just use them for working out.